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ButteryHOLsomeness

Joined: 03 Apr 2005
Posts: 770

Posted: Wed Jun 22, 05 4:00 pm Post subject:

we had a clever way of slowly getting my husbands parents to start recycling.

when we were living in glasgow there simply wasn't anything close by for recycling. we had to travel several miles to get to a recycling facility and it was out of the way AND we don't have a car (sold it when we moved there) so we had a houseful of stuff

mil always commented but would take us in the car with the bootful of stuff each time they came to visit! ours didn't recycle cardboard so she said she'd heard they did in her village (Dunoon) and she took that away with her

well, she had a good look around and found out they'd take the garden waste there. since they were doing up an old mess of a garden she was there frequently and kept noticing more things that they did

meanwhile she's still hauling us to the recycling area every time she came by and still taking things away for us and before you know it, she's hooked

actully, i'm quite impressed with dunoon's facilities, very commendable but only suitable for those with cars

glasgow is a disgrace when it comes to recycling

edinburgh isn't too bad. we are fortunate that we live practically across the street from pollock halls of residence. they have two large recycling banks set up AND we have two paper bins here with the flats normal bins. The paper guys saw me one day with my bags full of stuff that i was recycling (i'd been saving it awhile!) so they gave me a key which saves a LOT of time since the slot isn't very big...

mil still offers to take things to the recycling for us. we give her our old batteries and such like, the occasional cardboard etc

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 05 8:53 am Post subject:

With landfill getting so expensive, it's going to become more compuslory, I think. The more forward thinking counicils (barnet springs to mind, but bucks isn't bad, and some of the leicester ones) are now starting to restrict the amount of rubbish you can put out. Bucks already collect glass and paper, but are now pioloting a scheme where they'll collect greenwaste every week, but balck bags only once a fortnight. My cousin in Leiecester has a wheelie bin which is only emptied once a fortnight if the lid will close, and they won't take any additional rubbish (she is using real nappies cos of this!)

They can only do this if they collect recylcing, too, otherwise they will be valule for money rows. So they'll get better. When i was a kid my mum was weird cos she recylced, my cousins kids do it automatically - its normal. If we caan start getting schools to do it, all those futuree office workers will do it automatically too!

If you blaze a trail, Bugs, people will follow!

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 05 9:19 am Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

If you blaze a trail, Bugs, people will follow!

See, that's the problem, I'm not much of a trailblazer, I know that compared to lots of people here I'm not getting up to much, and I need support and encouragement myself

...when of all the people I know in real life and day to day (ie not you lot, you might all be in my head!), I'm probably the most careful, the most reduced, the most reusey and recycly...the world is in a sorry state.

Ah well, onwards and upwards...as you say people will start to move when they have less choice and if education is improving we might go the right way eventually...

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